Agapito Sánchez

Agapito Sánchez
Data
Birth Name	Agapito Sánchez
Fight name	El Ciclón
Weight class	Super bantamweight
nationality	Dominican
birthday	February 14, 1970
place of birth	El Aguacate
Date of death	November 15, 2005
Place of death	Santo Domingo
style	Southpaw
size	1.62 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	50
Victories	36
Knockout victories	18th
Defeats	11
draw	3

Agapito Sánchez (born February 14, 1970 in El Aguacate , Dominican Republic , † November 15, 2005 in Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic) was a Dominican professional boxer and WBO world champion in super bantamweight.

Boxing career

As an amateur boxer, he had a record of 68 wins (of which 62 by knockout) and 8 losses. In 1989 he switched to the professional camp and was initially not really convincing. In his first eleven fights against opponents who were developing , he had to accept three defeats on points and two draws. He was able to win the remaining six fights, five of them by knockout.

He then won nine fights in a row, including against the later Dominican champion Andres Adames (knockout in the 1st round) and the four-time World Cup challenger Manuel Jesús Herrera (knockout 4th round). On October 16, 1992 he was with a points victory against Julio César Pérez, Dominican champion in bantamweight. After two more points wins, he won on June 29, 1993 by knockout in the tenth round against Vinicio Rosario, the Dominican championship title in super flyweight. After another points win two months later, he moved to the United States and was managed by the Mexican Ricardo Maldonado.

In his first fight in the United States on May 28, 1994 in Lake Charles , he won the American championship in super bantamweight by winning points against the eventual WBU world champion Max Gómez (11 wins - 4 losses - 1 draw). On October 29, however, he lost the title by disqualification in the eighth round to Maui Díaz (26-1-0).

On April 25, 1995 he won by winning points against José Pantaleón (19-4-0), the WBC's international featherweight championship. After another points win, he boxed on August 22, 1995 in South Padre Island for the WBO world championship in super bantamweight. His opponent was the undefeated Mexican Marco Antonio Barrera (37-0-0), who defended his title against Sánchez for the third time. Sánchez managed to knock down on lap 12, but lost on points after 12 laps.

After three construction wins in Texas and New York , he boxed on April 21, 1997 in California for the North American featherweight championship of the WBO. However, he was defeated by Juan Manuel Márquez (19-1-0) on points. In his next fight on June 6th in Las Vegas , he lost for the first time by knockout against the eventual WBC world champion César Soto (46-7-2). On August 8, he suffered another loss on points against the undefeated, two-time WBA world champion Freddie Norwood (27-0-1).

On February 21, 1998, he won in Las Vegas on points against the eventual IBF World Champion Javier Jáuregui (38-7-1). Against the eventual WBC world champion Guty Espadas junior (24-2-0), however, he suffered a defeat on points on April 20.

After a points win against Nestor López (17-4-2), he boxed on October 23, 1998 against the two-time WBC world champion Óscar Larios (29-1-1) for the intercontinental championship of the WBO in super bantamweight and won the title by K. . o. in the fifth round. After five more victories he got on June 17, 2000 the chance of the Central American Championship ("Fecarbox") of the WBC in super bantamweight, which he won by knockout in the eleventh round against Gerardo Martínez (21-1-1). After a subsequent points win against world championship challenger Juan Carlos Ramírez (21-2-0), he qualified for a WBO world championship match in the super bantamweight category against Jorge Monsalvo (29-1-0). This fight, which was played on June 23, 2001 in Las Vegas, won Sánchez by knockout in the seventh round. However, the WBO was not yet one of the major associations at that time.

On November 10, 2001, he played a title unification fight in San Francisco against IBF world champion Manny Pacquiao , the best boxer in the world regardless of weight class . The fight ended in a technical draw in the sixth round. Due to an unintentional headbutt by Sánchez, Pacquiao had suffered a bleeding cut injury, which had led to the fight being stopped by the ring doctor. Then the score sheets were evaluated, on which there was a tie at this point despite two points deductions against Sánchez.

In his second title defense on February 26, 2004 in San Diego , he lost his title by knockout in the seventh round to the unbeaten Joan Guzmán (20-0-0). After winning points against Francisco Mateos (20-7-4) and Rogers Mtagwa (18-8-2), he was knocked out in December 2004 by the American Carlos Navarro (25-3-1) in the eleventh round. After a knockout win against former World Cup challenger Iván Álvarez, he won the US Superbantamweight Championship on July 22, 2005 by knockout in the fifth round against Artyom Simonyan (14-1-1).

On September 17, 2005 he defeated the Venezuelan champions Edison Torres by unanimous victory on points.

death

Agapito Sánchez was shot dead on November 15, 2005 in an altercation in a pub in Santo Domingo. He left a partner and three children. The perpetrator, who had previously molested Agapito's girlfriend, was arrested and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for manslaughter.

predecessor	Office	successor
vacant last title holder Marco Antonio Barrera	World Superbantamweight Boxing Champion ( WBO ) June 23, 2001 - August 15, 2002	Joan Guzman

Web links

• Profile at Boxrec
• Interview with WBO champion Agapito Sanchez, eastsideboxing
• Agapito Sanchez, The Independent

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joshua's compatriot owned the belts of WBA, IBF and WBC, at that time the WBO was not yet part of the illustrious circle. She has only been there since 2007. Since then, the undisputed champion has had four titles.